Managing the Transfer Portal Was Key to TCU Football’s Dream Season
First-year head coach Sonny Dykes put as much effort into retaining TCU’s existing talent as he did recruiting new players.
First-year head coach Sonny Dykes put as much effort into retaining TCU’s existing talent as he did recruiting new players.
From ‘Stranger Things’ to the Sex Pistols, from the Houston suburbs to the outskirts of Texas City, these were the actors who got our attention.
John T. Floore’s Country Store in Helotes is a honky-tonker’s honky-tonk, a veritable institution of Texas music. The dance hall’s walls are covered with photographs of the legends that have graced its stage: Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Patsy Cline, B.B. King, Ernest Tubb, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard,
This is the year that returned Beyoncé to our ears and Beavis and Butt-head to our screens.
From emotion-filled portraits to sweeping landscapes, this year’s top shots required out-of-the-box concepts and a little quick thinking.
From classics like ”Pretty Paper” and “Christmas Time in the Valley” to new releases from 2022, here’s the perfect playlist for celebrating the holidays in Texas.
Bally Sports Southwest’s Craig Way wouldn’t trade his annual high school football marathon for a chance to call the Super Bowl.
From Marfa to Montrose, we live, laugh, and love amid the same wall decor. Whose fault is it?
From Bruce Springsteen to Ballet Austin, there are plenty of ways to break out of the winter doldrums this season.
The artworks were semi-terrifying, but at least the people were nice.
At Blanco’s annual gathering, ethnicities, genres, and styles mix and clash, but are united by a common instrument.
The Texas Longhorns’ NFL-bound All-American deserves to be remembered alongside past greats like Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams, and Cedric Benson.
The DA in El Paso County shares a name with an iconic Texas comedian. How well can you tell them apart?
Has any QB had a better season than seventh-year Incarnate Word star Lindsey Scott Jr.? Sixth-year UTSA star Frank Harris might have a case.
The author of ‘The Perfect Pass’ and ‘Empire of the Summer Moon’ reflects on Mike Leach’s coaching legacy.
The former Texas Tech football coach, revered for his offensive mind and beloved for his one-of-a-kind character, died Monday.
In the past week, the Rangers have added an ace pitcher and the Astros have lost one. Can Arlington’s MLB team pay its way to competitiveness?
Somewhere inside every story—including the one in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to step back from the royal family, as told on Netflix’s ‘Harry & Meghan’—lies a Texan.
The Dallas-raised electronic musician is filling venues with his raucous, half-naked, almost fully improvised shows. Can he settle down just once and make a serious album?
The track from Abilene-based Old Fire’s new album, ‘Voids,’ evokes the bleakness of war and of the West Texas landscape.
The coauthor of memoirs by Vanessa Lachey, Shep Rose, and Chrishell Stause spills about the glamour—and grit—of helping the famous tell their stories.
Undefeated TCU wouldn’t be playing for a Big 12 championship and a national semifinal berth without gritty senior quarterback Max Duggan.
There’s potential for the two to be an iconic duo, a new generation’s Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
There’s no stoplight, no stores, and no walk-in businesses in Valentine. But there’s plenty of space to stretch those legs.
Making sense of the politics behind the unprecedented attacks on Texas school library volumes that deal with issues of race and gender.
The San Marcos–bred supergroup released two farewell albums last week, one of which is a reflective solo record that complicates the band’s legacy.
Jimmy Johnson’s memoir, ‘Swagger,’ is another salvo in the catty, decades-long feud between the former coach and Jerry Jones.
Five USMNT players came through FC Dallas’s system, which is considered the nation's best incubator of world-class soccer talent.
‘Live at Budokan’ is a mythical lost recording of Willie at the height of his powers.
Roll through the final weekend of the annual tour like a local art savant.
It was a riotous, emotional affair that at times felt like a family reunion.
Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.
Will Beyoncé finally get her Album of the Year award, and more we want to know.
After the Horned Frogs beat UT Saturday, reports that the Longhorns passed on Dykes for Steve Sarkisian left Texas fans wondering, “What if?”
The Texas troubadour’s farewell lap was full of misadventures and unforgettable moments. Kind of like a classic REK song.
Multiple times throughout the documentary, Gomez repeats that she no longer craves stardom. But what the singer wants instead remains unclear.
Season three of the Netflix reality series wrapped up in Dallas, but between the gossipy fun and the occasional eye roll, there is insight into the nature of twenty-first-century relationships and marriage.
For the second time in history, the oversight body delivered its stiffest penalty—to a tiny central Texas high school with 48 total students.
Lee Baxter Davis is an unrecognized master because he’s never played to popular or critical tastes.
Dive deep into a song from Adrian Quesada’s newest album, ‘Jaguar Sound.’
Reflecting on the World Series with Astros announcer Todd Kalas, whose father, Harry Kalas, called Phillies games for almost forty years.
A fan from day one muses on sixty years of joy and heartbreak—and whether winning brings redemption.
Texas A&M is riding its worst losing streak since 2005, and the only thing protecting Jimbo Fisher’s job is his huge guaranteed contract.
Jeannie C. Riley celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday with a big bash in the tiny town of Burton, where she reflected on the irony of her sixties megahit “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
Artist Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee has installed a soothing, glittering exhibit at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Thanks to a memorabilia boom and another Astros World Series trip, Houston has become a hotbed for rare hat collectors.
The titular character of director Ti West’s latest horror movie, ‘Pearl,’ is a young Texan who’s had it with the people and society that keep her repressed.
From Johnny Cash to the Stone Coyotes, musicians have long made harrowing music about the Lone Star State.
Gridlock, brand activations, and Austrian funnel cake ruled the weekend’s U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.
With its fourth album and a big upcoming tour, Tulip, which is led by an ex-evangelical opera singer, is on the verge of its big break.